Page 6 - 2010-11 Boys Basketball State Finals Program

Tournament

By RICHARD TORRES Preview
VYPE High School Sports
Magazine, Central Indiana

Class A Championship Class 2A Championship
Triton (23-3) vs. Indianapolis Metropolitan (21-6) Hammond Bishop Noll (26-0) vs. Park Tudor (25-2)
For a third time in four years, Triton will vie for a basketball The wait is over for Hammond Bishop Noll. Reaching the
state title. State champs in 2008 and state runners-up in State Finals for the first time since 1988 and playing in its
2009, the second-ranked Trojans will face unranked India- first championship game in school history, the second-
napolis Metropolitan, which set a program record for wins ranked Warriors are looking to become the 13th team in
this season. The Pumas will seek to knock off their third tournament history to finish the season as an undefeated
consecutive top 10 foe (64-61, vs. No. 9 Shawe Memorial state champion. Fourth-ranked Park Tudor returns to
at regional; 61-50, vs. No. 5 North Daviess at semi-state) to Conseco Fieldhouse for a second straight year, riding a 13-
win the school’s first state title in any sport. game winning streak in search of its first state title as well.
The Panthers defeated top-ranked Forest Park for a second
Fast Facts straight year in the semi-state championship.
- Metropolitan is a public charter school in Indianapolis and
was approved for IHSAA membership in 2006-07. The Fast Facts
Pumas fielded their first boys basketball team in 2007-08. - Bishop Noll is the only remaining undefeated team left in
- Triton head coach Jason Groves owns a 119-29 record in the state at 26-0.
six years. - If Bishop Noll wins, the Warriors will become the first
- The Metropolitan Pumas won the school’s first sectional undefeated Class 2A state champions since Cass
championship in any sport with a 75-44 victory against finished 26-0 in 2002-03.
Fall Creek Academy on March 5. - Park Tudor’s Kevin Ferrell has committed to Indiana
- Triton is riding a 17-game winning streak since losing to University.
Class 4A Warsaw on Dec. 21, 2010. - Bishop Noll captured its first regional title since 2001 and
- Metropolitan captured its first regional title with consecu- first semi-state championship since 1988.
tive three-point victories, including a 64-61 win against - Park Tudor head coach Ed Schilling is a former New
No. 9 Shawe Memorial in the title game. Jerrbryon Jersey Nets assistant coach and spent six seasons
Graves sealed the victory by heaving and sinking a as head coach at Wright State. He was also was an
3-pointer from the opposite free throw line at the buzzer. assistant coach at Memphis and UMass.
- Graves’ heroic regional championship shot was featured - Bishop Noll’s Adonis Filer transferred from Mt. Carmel
as the No. 1 Top Play on ESPN’s SportsCenter on March (Illinois) last summer. He is the younger brother of
15. 2007 Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year Steve Filer, a
linebacker at the University of Notre Dame.
Players to Watch: Triton – Griffyn Carpenter (6-1, Sr.,
G): 19.1 ppg, 3.7 rpg; Clay Yeo (6-5, So. , F): 16.3 ppg, 4.8 Players to Watch: Bishop Noll – Adonis Filer (6-3, Sr.
rpg, 2.6 apg; Jordan Everett (6-4, Sr., F): 7.8 ppg, 4.0 rpg; PG): 15.9 ppg, 4.4. rpg, 3.2 apg; Ronnye Beamon, Jr. (6-4,
Austin Davis (6-6, Sr., C): 5.4 ppg, 4.8 rpg. Metropolitan – Jr., G): 11.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg; John Dodson (6-1, Jr., G): 9.4
Raymond Green (6-1, Sr., G): 19.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg; Jerrbryon ppg, 2.7 rpg; Larry Crisler (6-2, Fr., G/F): 8.3 ppg, 4.8 rpg.
Graves (5-9, Sr., G): 11.0 ppg, 7.4 apg; Anthony Jackson Park Tudor – Kevin Ferrell (5-11, Jr., G): 18.7 ppg, 3.0 rpg,
(6-3, Sr., F): 12.1 ppg, 10.2 rpg; Reese Williams (5-10, Sr., 6.6. apg; Trevon Bluiett (6-5, Fr., F): 13.7 ppg, 7.6 rpg; J.B.
G): 8.5 ppg, 3.2 rpg. Rapp (6-3, Jr., G): 8.3 ppg, 2.0 apg; Paul Bayt (6-4, Jr., F):
7.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg.